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Rea Carey, center, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, talks with David Alexander, left, and Mark Daley during a celebratory brunch at The Sportsmen’s Lodge in Studio City, Sunday, September 29, 2013, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the nation’s leading LGBT equality advocacy organization. (Michael Owen Baker/Daily News Staff Photographer)

STUDIO CITY – The marriage equality victories in the U.S. Supreme Court don’t mean the fight for freedom and justice is over, says Rea Carey of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the Daily News reports.

Carey, the executive director of the nation’s oldest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy organization, was among the featured speakers Sunday at the national organization’s 40th anniversary celebration and fundraiser in Studio City.

“The Task Force is more determined than ever to lead the effort to create a world where no one is devalued and no one is left behind in what is quickly becoming a divided country — the haves and the have-nots — when it comes to LGBT equality,” Carey told people feasting on a Mexican-style brunch and open bar Sunday at the Sportsmen’s Lodge.

“If we are to be truly transformational, we must acknowledge the spotlight on our community right now and we must accept the privilege of our progress on marriage and use it,” she said. “Use it well, to call attention to the fact that our work is not done. That many inequalities still exist.”

Among the inequalities, the task force is pushing Congress to pass federal employment protections for LGBT people and in the interim, pushing President Barack Obama to issue an executive order that bans discrimination against those working for federal contractors, Carey said, the Daily News reports.